FN Archimer Export Format
PT J
TI Interspecific differences in the effect of fish on marine microbial plankton
BT 
AF VILLEGER, Sebastien
   FOUILLAND, Eric
   ARGENTY, Jeremy
   BOUVIER, Corinne
   CARRE, Claire
   BOUVIER, Thierry
AS 1:1;2:1;3:1;4:1;5:1;6:1;
FF 1:;2:;3:;4:;5:;6:;
C1 Univ Montpellier, CNRS, MARBEC, Ifremer,IRD, F-34095 Montpellier, France.
C2 CNRS, FRANCE
UM MARBEC
IN WOS Cotutelle UMR
IF 1.841
TC 3
UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00584/69659/67513.pdf
   https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00584/69659/67585.pdf
LA English
DT Article
DE ;Marine fish;Nutrient excretion;Protozooplankton;Phytoplankton;Bacteria
AB The productivity of most marine ecosystems is limited by the availability of dissolved nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P). Nutrient recycling is therefore a key process for ecosystem functioning. Fish recycle nutrients through the excretion of ammonia and phosphate and can influence the abundance and community structure of primary producers such as phytoplankton. However, the effect of fish on other plankton compartments, and whether all fish species have similar effects, is largely unknown. We used a tank experiment to test how 2 Mediterranean fish species, gilthead seabream Sparus aurata and golden mullet Chelon auratus, with distinctly different N and P excretion rates, can affect the abundance and community structure of 3 plankton compartments: phytoplankton, bacterioplankton, and microzooplankton. We found that the nutrients released by seabream (whose excreta had an N:P molar ratio greater than the Redfield ratio of 16:1) induced a substantial increase in the abundance of all plankton compartments. In addition, with seabream, the relative abundance of diatoms in the phytoplankton communities increased. However, no significant change was observed with mullet, which had a low excreta N:P molar ratio, suggesting that the growth of microbial plankton was limited by the availability of N. Our results demonstrate that nutrient excretion by fish affects the microbial food web through a species-specific bottom-up effect on the total abundance and community structure of the phytoplankton, bacterioplankton, and microzooplankton communities. 
PY 2019
SO Aquatic Microbial Ecology
SN 0948-3055
PU Inter-research
VL 82
IS 3
UT 000487114000006
BP 289
EP 298
DI 10.3354/ame01897
ID 69659
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